Hi, nowhere in the rules does it state that all clan members are forced to post in a clan thread. They state that clans "may only accept official members." All of the people in my OP are officially accepted into SotP. I did not list people without their consent that they would join. I do not care about whether they actually post in a thread or not as the ultimate purpose of a clan is a group of people that ultimately get along. No specific "thread" or "xat room" can be constrained as a measure of determining who is actually in or not a clan. Certainly, they help as a record, but that's all it is.
Reporting that Nachos is "not an official member of the clan because he hadn't posted in the clan thread" is terrible reasoning, as nowhere in the
Rules does it state that "an official member must post in the clan thread in order to officially sign up." I had my members post in the thread as proof that they are legitimate users and NOT as alts.
Nachos is someone who has been on Serebii Forums for a while, so I didn't pay much attention as to whether or not he actually posted, as he had expressed his interest in joining, and as far as I was concerned, was one of two members that had expressed interest in joining this clan as I had notified him and another user when I was contacted by skarmory7.
I understand that what I define as "official member" may not constitute this website's definition of being an "official member," but nowhere does it state the definition for that term. I had read the global rules, and if this issue at hand does not relate to anything covered by
the rules relevant to this subforum, then it is not right to force me to sub one of my players out for something that isn't listed in the rules as I followed the rules. I reference the rules explicitly stated as this is the one place that's transparent to everyone so that everyone is clear on what is and isn't allowed. Adding a rule on exact sign-up method is fine, but comparing this event with rules that were written after the event it happens in is illogical.
tl;dr I dispute the claim that "Nachos is not an official member of SotP" as not only the reasoning behind the claim itself is flawed, but so is the conclusion.